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Name: ATKINS, Charles Farquhar
Birth Date: 7 Oct 1907 Ferozopore, India
Death Date: 10 Dec 1997 Sedgemoor, Somerset
First Date: 1930
Profession: Appointed as a DO in 1930. DC Meru in 1939. Senior DC Nairobi in 1953
Area: Meru, Nairobi, Kipini
Married: In Kisumu 11 May 1940 Jane Borwick b. 13 May 1915 Kenya, d. 17 July 1999 Taunton, Somerset (dau. of George Ernest Borwick)
Children: Robert Farquhar (1942); Janet Farquhar (15 Feb 1944 Kisumu-2013); Patricia Mary Farquhar (1948); Charles William Farquhar (6 Nov 1945 Kisumu); John David Farquhar (1951 Nairobi)
Book Reference: Staff 39, Staff 53, Colonial, O&C, Peerage
School: Blundells School, Oundle School and Brasenose College Oxford BA (Oxon)
General Information:
Colonial - Permanent Secretary 1958
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Coast Voters List DO, Kipini
Terence Gavaghan, Of Lions and Dungbeetles, 1999 In 1945 the DC Atkins was in a low, rambling but functional and whitewashed district office in Kisumu. It was quite airy in spite of the humidity which the DC evidently found oppressive as his ample frame was habitually unbuttoned to the vest. He often used to hum in snatches, suggesting preoccupation or impatience. Although diffident to the point of shyness and rarely looking directly at one, he was clearly able and not unkind. . . A lusty Brasenose College Oxford oarsman, he had gained ballast and beam as Commodore of Kisumu Yacht Club, in which he was known for his expertise at luffing, or taking the wind from one's sails. He had once been a DO at Maralal, and the DC of Tana River District, where the Hola of irrigation scheme and detention camp were later situated, and had recently been Permanent Secretary for African Affairs.